{"id":220053,"date":"2025-10-23T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220053\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:31:13","slug":"tour-de-france-route-presentation-live-the-2026-mens-and-womens-race-route-unveiled-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220053\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France route presentation Live – The 2026 men’s and women’s race route unveiled in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2025-10-23T10:29:10.630Z<\/p>\n

And as expected, the finale in Paris will repeat last year\u2019s climbs of Montmartre.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:28:32.249Z<\/p>\n

The big news – there will be two finishes atop Alpe d\u2019Huez, on stages 19 and 20.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:27:06.650Z<\/p>\n

The second week routes are being announced, with plenty of climbing in the Massif Central and Vosges featured.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:26:07.893Z<\/p>\n

It seems there will be no big montain stage in the Pyenees.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:25:38.217Z<\/p>\n

Stage three will, as rumoured finish atop the ski station in Les Angles.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:25:08.676Z<\/p>\n

We already know the parcours for the first two stages, a team time trial and hilly road stage in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:24:05.122Z<\/p>\n

And indeed, here comes the video presentation of the route.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:23:49.036Z<\/p>\n

Prudhomme’s back on stage, so it looks like we’re poised to get some more announcements.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:19:51.804Z<\/p>\n

The mayor of Barcelona is here and on stage to give a brief speech.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:18:28.755Z<\/p>\n

Barcelona will, of course, host the men\u2019s Grand D\u00e9part, and a video showcasing the city is currently being played.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:13:49.015Z<\/p>\n

Now, the focus turns to the men. At present a (long) video going over the highlights of last year\u2019s race is being played in the arena.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:13:10.690Z<\/p>\n

The map for the 2026 Tour de France Femmes is revealed on stage.<\/p>\n

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2025-10-23T10:10:37.297Z<\/p>\n

See here our full write-up of the Tour de France Femmes route that\u2019s just been announced.<\/p>\n

Tour de France Femmes 2026 route revealed featuring Swiss Grand D\u00e9part, Mont Brouilly, and Mont Ventoux<\/a><\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:07:59.714Z<\/p>\n

The main take from this Tour de France Femmes route is the lack of climbing. While there are plenty of punchy efforts to keep us entertained and encourage the GC contenders to attack, aside from the Ventoux there are no high mountain passes to take on, with no additional stages in the High Alps.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:05:03.162Z<\/p>\n

So there will be two stage finishing in Nice following the Ventoux stage: the first a mostly flat one with a couple of small late climbs, the second a short, punchy one centred around four ascents of the Col d’\u00c8ze.<\/p>\n

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2025-10-23T10:00:53.920Z<\/p>\n

Here’s the parcours for each stage.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T10:00:29.094Z<\/p>\n

Rousse and Prudhomme on stage.<\/p>\n

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2025-10-23T09:59:23.235Z<\/p>\n

That looks like more of a puncheur stage than a mountainous one, as had been expected, which will only serve to increase the importance of the summit finish atop Ventoux the day before.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:56:58.012Z<\/p>\n

Stage eight – the one succeeding the Ventoux stage – was the one we knew least about before today. It\u2019s been announced that it will be 99km, and feature a loop around the iconic climb of Paris-Nice, the Col d\u2019Eze.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:53:51.613Z<\/p>\n

Three climbs will be in store on a punchy stage five, starting in M\u00e2con and finishing in Belleville-en-Beaujolais.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:51:25.236Z<\/p>\n

Stage four\u2019s time trial in Dijon will be 21km – apparently a reference to how many cantons there are in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:49:19.925Z<\/p>\n

And the mystery of the final stage is at last revealed – it will start in Sisteron and finish in Nice.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:48:22.662Z<\/p>\n

The Mont Ventoux finish of stage 7 is also confirmed.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:47:22.677Z<\/p>\n

We already know much of the Tour de France Femmes, and the three Swiss stages are confirmed.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:45:55.141Z<\/p>\n

After some speeches from representatives of the Swiss Grand Depart, Marrion Rousse is back on stage. It seems, at last the route is to be announced!<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:39:11.509Z<\/p>\n

A video is now being shown of Swiss under-17 rider Valentine Rousseau, and her feelings about the Tour starting in her home country next year.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:34:35.551Z<\/p>\n

Rousse is greeted with applause as she announces the news of Zwift\u2019s extended partnership.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:29:42.092Z<\/p>\n

The big names we\u2019re here to are at least on stage – Marion Rousse and Christian Prudhomme.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:27:36.282Z<\/p>\n

Zwift will again be sponsoring the Tour de France Femmes in 2026, and today announced that it will extend their partnership with the race to 2029.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing women\u2019s participation in cycling is a critical mission,\u201d said the company\u2019s CEO Eric Min in a press release. \u201cWe truly believe that to be successful, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:24:02.903Z<\/p>\n

After the first speech of the day, we\u2019re now seeing a highlights reel of last year\u2019s Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:15:52.839Z<\/p>\n

Well, any minute now. First a promo video for ASO, organisers of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:14:14.289Z<\/p>\n

Right, here we go. The parcours is about to be announced.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:13:24.097Z<\/p>\n

Now some of the men are being brought on stage, including Dylan Groenewegen, and Valentin Paret-Peintre.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:10:40.739Z<\/p>\n

Squiban is from Brittany, which hosted the Grand D\u00e9part of this year\u2019s race. In 2026, Switzerland has that honour.<\/p>\n

Swiss Grand D\u00e9part announced for Tour de France Femmes in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:07:58.379Z<\/p>\n

Some of the peloton\u2019s stars are brought on stage ahead of the Tour de France Femmes announcement, including Kasia Niewadoma, Maeva Squiban and Dominika W\u0142odarczyk.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:04:25.241Z<\/p>\n

The presentation is taking place at the Palais des Congr\u00e8s in Paris.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T09:03:14.075Z<\/p>\n

We\u2019re underway! The lights go down, and the familiar song from the Tour de France podium ceremony plays.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:57:55.103Z<\/p>\n

We\u2019re just a few minutes away from the beginning of the presentation.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:53:16.556Z<\/p>\n

The routes might only be being officially announced today, but we already know lots of the details, plus many more rumours concerning them. We\u2019ve rounded up everything we know already prior to today\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n

Tour de France 2026 \u2013 All the route rumours ahead of the official presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:47:33.182Z<\/p>\n

The routes for both the women\u2019s Tour de France and the men\u2019s race will be announced here, the former run by Marion Rousse and the latter Christian Prudhomme.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:44:44.956Z<\/p>\n

The presentation is due to begin in about fifteen minutes, at 11:00 CET. As with pretty much any glitzy sporting ceremony like this, it\u2019ll take a while to get to the point, but we\u2019ll get to the juicy details of what\u2019s on the Tour routes before long.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:41:05.577Z<\/p>\n

This day always has a feeling a bit like Christmas Eve for cycling fans – albeit one that precedes Christmas Day by over half a year. We\u2019re given a host of reasons to get excited for the upcoming Tour de France, and the next eight months or so from now will be spent in eager anticipation of what is revealed and confirmed today.<\/p>\n

2025-10-23T08:24:37.494Z<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Tour de France route presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2025-10-23T10:29:10.630Z And as expected, the finale in Paris will repeat last year\u2019s climbs of Montmartre. 2025-10-23T10:28:32.249Z The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}